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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Fred M. Sickler |
June 30, 1917 |
Shungnak |
"Annual School Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1917 |
| MS Ref: | [12-152] [13-8] [13-10] | Box: |
NARA |
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Moneellluk; | White Names: |
Nelson; Dr. Driggs; Robert Samms; Mr. Shields; Mrs. Sickler; |
| Events: | Places: | "Noatak River; Selawik River; Koyukuk River; the Yukon; Shungnak; Candle, Kiana; Kotzebue; Riley Camp; the Kobuk; Fort Yukon; Pt. Barrow; Tanana; Pt. Hope; Kobuk River; Selawik Valley and lower Kobuk; Pah River; Selawik; Noorvik;" | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "ave. attendance 32.8; entire population about 200; school not situated in a place that provides sufficient food and employment for the entire community; reindeer camps; older children and attendance; saw mill, horses for plow, wireless, fish traps near village: all this would help keep people in village; one neighboring village has these things at govt. expense; Noorvik envy; dissatisfaction with conditions and teacher as a result of lacking these things; sanitation, council and inspectors; housing; hygiene; spring floods; gardening, a native industry here; vegetables a trade item; experimenting with grains; need for horses; native companies working placers; no natives employed by white miners his year; morals in state of transition, explanation; contract and trial marriages quite common; still practicing old ways; confused by examples of white neighbors; descriptions; convictions for sexual immorality; divorces; white men without family ties easily degraded by contacted with the natives, Sickler's view of this; Christianity established through contact with Indians who had contact with Church of England; info about Christianity through Indians, "vague", no mention of Christ; Moneulluk remembered in Kobuk song and dance, claimed to be inspired, preached the golden rule, painted with native colors a picture of Heaven on wood, publicly broke taboos before a tribal council, travelled north, east and west, died near Pt. Barrow; 1st Kobuk Christians at Tanana in 1900; Driggs visit to Kobuk and Noatak Rivers; native laymen from Swedish mission visited Selawik valley; 1898, Samms established trading post at Kotz., Friends meetings; Kobuks generally in favor of Episcopals, those closer to Kotz., favor Friends; pagan customs retained 'til 1898 gold rush, more superstitions discarded on account of contact with whites than on account of any missionary; polygamy; annual visits to shamans at Selawik and Noorvik; perceptions of Christian teachings; spiritism; reindeer, outlook not very good; all wish to own, none wish to herd; big game and mines now of more value than reindeer; industrial work; time demands of required subjects; native council;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"trapping supports about 10% of population; no small game left near village; hunting trips with family more successful; sheep, caribou, bears; meat and skins preserved for winter use; 2 white trader posts, dealings apparently honest; trapping beliefs [superstitions]; " |
| Business or Organization: |
U.S. Geologic Survey; Church of England; Society of Friends; Smithsonian Institute; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Eskimo About Bering Straits; | Diseases & Infirmaties |
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| General Medical | sulfur for fumigating cabins where there's been a death; | ||
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